Guild Transfer Option Coming Soon

Transferring servers as a guild has always been needlessly hard. Your guild bank usually has too much gold to bring over and your guild ranks are disrupted when reformed--and with the guild reputation system that's now in place, it's become an even bigger nightmare. It seems that Blizzard finally intends to do something about this, as today they've announced that there is going to be a guild relocation and renaming feature coming sometime in the future to World of Warcraft.

If nothing else, this should provide some more incentive to take use of free server transfers that are offered time to time. And hey, who hasn't dreamed of renaming their guild before?

We want to give everyone an early heads-up regarding our plan to implement a guild relocation service for World of Warcraft. The idea is for a guild leader to be able to transfer a guild to another realm. The guild structure remains intact, including the guild leader, guild bank, ranks, and guild name (depending on availability).

Guild members who decide to relocate with their guild may initiate their own paid character transfer. Upon a successful transfer they will automatically be part of the guild when they first log into the new realm. Their guild rank and guild reputation will be intact.

Guild leaders who do not want a change of scenery may also choose to pick a new guild name using another new service. These services are in development and we will be providing additional details at a future point in time.

As with all of the features and services we offer, we intend to incorporate the guild relocation service in a way that will not disrupt the game play experience. Please note that this feature will require extensive internal testing, so you may see bits and pieces of the service appear on the public test realms. We'll announce further details at WorldofWarcraft.com.

Comments

Comment by Xykar

Guild members who buy relocation together get a bulk purchase discount? Eh, eh, nudge nudge?

Comment by Trinea

on 2011-03-23T11:52:47-05:00

This is going to be so awesome. I hope it goes without a hitch.

Comment by FeatheredSoul

on 2011-03-23T11:53:12-05:00

Probably going to cost a bundle...

Comment by Ackis

on 2011-03-23T11:53:55-05:00

WTB Account transfer option.

Comment by greyorgano

on 2011-03-23T11:54:37-05:00

LOL! My wife and I just sold our personal guild just this weekend because we server transferred.

Ah well, can't win them all

Comment by deadrogy

on 2011-03-23T11:55:39-05:00

Guild members who buy relocation together get a bulk purchase discount? Eh, eh, nudge nudge?

Rating +150

Comment by OptimusJ

on 2011-03-23T11:56:00-05:00

I bet it's the preparation for new local servers in Japan and Brazil. There will be lots of people wanting to relocate to local servers. And to lose stuff they build on old realms is not very attractive.

Comment by Adenosine

on 2011-03-23T11:56:50-05:00

Uhh..you can transfer accounts. As long as they are both yours anyway.

Comment by Ashelia

on 2011-03-23T11:58:38-05:00

I bet it's the preparation for new local servers in Japan and Brazil. There will be lots of people wanting to relocate to local servers. And to lose stuff they build on old realms is not very attractive.

I think it's partially that and also the new guild reputation system--it's too hard to transfer and lose all of that nowadays, was easier in WotLK and such.

I also wonder if they're thinking of maybe consolidating low-pop servers in the future using this for free.

Comment by DELDzargok

on 2011-03-23T12:02:08-05:00

Great expected service, finally.

Comment by Sleuth

on 2011-03-23T12:04:16-05:00

I think it's partially that and also the new guild reputation system--it's too hard to transfer and lose all of that nowadays, was easier in WotLK and such.

I also wonder if they're thinking of maybe consolidating low-pop servers in the future using this for free.

Almost certainly it's due to the rep and guild levels system. Losing all your perks is enough of a deterrent to change guilds for most people right now, let alone the guild master considering a mass guild faction/server change.

If low-pop servers do become free under this service, perhaps realm balance issues might be more resolvable in the future. Whehay!

Comment by FoShizzle8

on 2011-03-23T12:11:07-05:00

meh i still wouldnt transfer with my guild unless it was free or my gm payed for it

Comment by Chilela

on 2011-03-23T12:15:36-05:00

WTB more Horde guilds on Khaz Modan US, please and thank you ;)

Comment by ExDementia

on 2011-03-23T12:20:35-05:00

What happens to the members that don't leave the server with them? Just log in guildless one day? I guess that would make sense, just like getting /gkicked. That would suck though :P

Comment by Monday

on 2011-03-23T12:22:28-05:00

This is nice, I like it.

Comment by Interest

on 2011-03-23T12:30:10-05:00

YES! YES! (And this one for micropayments is completely justified...btw)

Guild leaders who do not want a change of scenery may also choose to pick a new guild name using another new service. These services are in development and we will be providing additional details at a future point in time.

Paid guild name changes....?

Uh...it should be free...just on a long cooldown...

Comment by Nykkel

on 2011-03-23T12:31:28-05:00

After the feature is implemented, I imagine it won't be too long before an unscrupulous guild leader decides to relocate to another server. Taking the guild bank with him, and not telling any of the people who were in the guild before.

EDIT:Yeah, one could already just move all the best parts of the guild bank into their own account, and then do an account transfer. But this would be easier.

Comment by FoShizzle8

on 2011-03-23T13:24:53-05:00

After the feature is implemented, I imagine it won't be too long before an unscrupulous guild leader decides to relocate to another server. Taking the guild bank with him, and not telling any of the people who were in the guild before.

EDIT:Yeah, one could already just move all the best parts of the guild bank into their own account, and then do an account transfer. But this would be easier.

yeah,someone already did that.and got banned after doing it.i dont know if it was this webpage or another one but i was reading about some guy who was transfering and decided to take the guild bank with him(i think it was eather an officer in the guild,or the gm).and i guess someone got pissed and banned him

eather way,with the amount of gold you get from the cash flow perk i dont see how you can transfer that much gold and not have blizzard flag it or something

Comment by PoetikDragon

on 2011-03-23T13:48:58-05:00

That's great... except that the Guild Leader rank can't be set to require an authenticator. So now if a guild leader's account is hacked, they can hop servers with the entire guild, and not even be tracked down by other players because the character and guild name may change. People may just log in and not even know what happened, finding themselves guildless.

Comment by dumac

on 2011-03-23T14:00:19-05:00

I wonder why not have a vote percentage based system if you wanna go with them. Meaning the vote needs to be 70% and the vote takes place during 24 hour. This will make it harder to just hack g leader account and transfer guild and make it harder for a leader just to move guild by being mean.

As i read it, the guild will move with the GM. If you wanna stay with the guild you yourself gotta pay and transfer to the server. So i assume you are guildless then guild move, then you pay for transfer and are at the server you join the guild with same rank and rep etc.

Could read it wrong but that is how I interpret it, the way they write it.